Birth of a Cruel Dictator
Trump ignoring the Supreme Court and the Rule of Law Makes Him a Dictator
April 14, 2025
By Marc Cooper
The latest stooge of Donald Trump — the authoritarian President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, has arrived at the White House today and laughably claims that he would not release Abrego Garcia — the mistakenly deported innocent man whom the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously decreed should be set free.
Who is this joker, who has constructed a concrete concentration camp holding thousands of Salvadoran prisoners, trying to kid? The Trump administration is basically renting space in his camp to stash a couple hundred deportees who a federal judge ordered the planes carrying them to be turned around, an order ignored by the White House.
What is Abrego Garcia? A chattel slave? Trump did not sell him to Bukele. Trump paid him millions in rent to warehouse the deportees who were sent to his ultramax prison and the man has broken no laws here or in El Salvador and has had no hearing anywhere.
Of course, a tin pot dictator like Bukele would swim to the bottom of a pool and eat turtle droppings if Trump asked him to. The only suspense here is if Trump had to give Bukele a tip so he when he arrived he would side with Trump’s lawlessness.
Trump and his goon cabinet have done their best to muddy the waters on this case. to keep us confused. But let’s cut through the BS and tell the simple truth. The US Supreme Court voted 9-0, unanimously, that the U.S. government should “facilitate” and “effectuate” his return. That tortured wording left Trump about a quarter inch of wiggle room and he has hence pried it into a yawning unconstitutional gap to do whatever the hell he wants to do or doesn’t want to do.
Trump clearly thinks we are as dumb as he is and we’re gonna believe his horseshit story that he can’t bring the guy back because he has not authority in El Salvador. WTF? Did he sell Garcia’s body to Bukele.
The Supremes kicked the case down to a lower court to clearly define “effectuate” and that judge has been adamant in getting Garcia back but Trump is also stonewalling that venue and exposing his lawyers and his operatives if not himself to contempt of court charges — that he will brush off like fleas.
In the meantime, Trump’s demented VP has been baselessly, with zero evidence, smearing Garcia as being a top guy in the MS-13 gang (not the Train de Aragua gang that was supposedly targeted in the deportation to El Salvador). This makes VP Vance below contempt. He’s on the level of a sewer rat quite openly.
Let’s not miss the point. When the President of the United States orders his Justice Dept. to act like the East German Stasi and “investigate” his political critics, when little teenie weenie Marco Rubio can block student visas by supposing what subversive targets MIGHT say in the future, and when Donald Trump refuses to comply with the Federal Courts and the U.S. Supreme Court (!), you no longer have to wonder when The Moment has come.
It’s here. Right now.
Today, April 14, we live in an authoritarian state and Donald Trump has now assumed the rank of DICTATOR, a cruel and deranged one. This is not set in stone and a massive civil movement can block the consolidation of a full-on dictatorship — but only if it is honest about the situation we are already in and is prepared to fight and sacrifice.
A country where the president can jail and even render overseas anybody he wants without any due process, while totally ignoring the courts, is a president who is already a dictator — no matter how pleasant and polite Bill Maher says he was in his private dinner with him.
Now, you might be mildly disturbed by this but also might figure your ass is not up for grabs because you’re a nice law-abiding legal citizen not a dubious darker skinned migrant. Sorry, folks. When there is no rule of law, there is no difference between being “legal and law abiding” and being a serial killer in the eyes of the government.
I don’t want to sound old-fashioned, but even if your own butt is safe, do you want to accept living in a country where our president colludes with another banana republic dictator to hold people as chattel? Where legitimate foreign students are scooped off the streets and held with no due process? Are you sure your own college aged kid has not written some social media posts that the Orangutan or Field Marshal Rubio deems as anti-American and therefore ready to be deported? Are you comfortable with the Dictator cutting funding for scientific research? Is it not your problem that the Dictator is on the verge of putting Columbia University under state control? Are you OK that European and other tourists are not daring to visit our Great Nation because too many are many are being harassed, investigated and detained at American airports? Are you OK with ICE agents attempting to enter elementary schools to detain 7 year olds?
Somebody you know, I guarantee you, is in theoretical danger of Trump’s lawlessness and this isn’t even counting the economic pain he has unleashed and that is barreling toward all of us.
His handling, his bungling of the tariff obsession came within an inch of setting the entire global economy ablaze. And prices AND inflation are back on the rise here and it is obvious Trump doesn’t really give a damn about “the economy.” He’s interested only in power and power alone. The tariff gambit is nothing but a thinly veiled shakedown racket forcing smaller countries to come begging for mercy from Donald Trump. Just like the spineless law firms and some major media have already done.
Does not his ravings about Greenland alone qualify him as a power mad Dictator? Why do we and much of the media treat this as some sort of a normal news rather than the obvious pathology it really is?
And those who are clinging to the mid terms as a possible escape route better loosen their grip. The recent SAFE act will block millions of married women from voting as their names on their birth certificates will not match their current ID. And that assumes there will be free and fair elections in 2026, if any at all. I would put it at a toss-up if they are not suspended by some manufactured state of emergency. This summer will see a blossoming of large protests that will easily afford the Dictator the chance to impose the Insurrection Act, put troops in the streets and suspend voting.
Trump doesn’t want Abrego Garcia to come back for a couple of obvious reasons. The Supreme Court decree included the inconvenient phrase that all future deportees must have a hearing and legal recourse. Trump has no desire to set the precedent with Garcia. And that means a continuing conflict, or better said, a brushing off all courts and legal restraints ahead of us. Second, the last thing he wants is a surviving witness to stand before the American public and media describing the Nazi-like conditions that prevail in Mr. Bukele’s little hell hole. My understanding is that NOBODY has ever been released from that prison since it opened some years ago and Bukele filled it with thousands of extra-legal arrests with no hearings and no release dates.
Our president is now on the same moral plane as dictator Bukele. It is infuriating and embarrassing as an American. Two peas in a pod. Two lawless dictators. One who rules a small nation of 5 or 6 million. And the other the most powerful, nuclear armed nation in the world of 340 million.
Something to think about for sure. Something to do something about. There are no longer any room for silent apathetic people who say they don’t care about politics. When your president is a dictator there are only opponents and collaborators. If you are not against the dictator you are empowering him.
Next Saturday is another nationwide protest in more than a thousand cities, Where are you gonna be? ++
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